Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Kings 9:35
And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of [her] hands.
35. they went to bury her ] While Jehu was refreshing himself in the palace, the dogs gathered about the dead body of Jezebel and devoured it. So completely had the tide of popular favour turned towards Jehu, that there was not found one to protect the corpse of Jezebel.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 35. The skull – the feet, and the palms of her hands.] The dogs did not eat those parts, say Jarchi and Kimchi, because in her festal dances she danced like a dog, on her hands and feet, wantonly moving her head. What other meaning these rabbins had, I do not inquire. She was, no doubt, guilty of the foulest actions, and was almost too bad to be belied.
How literally was the prediction delivered in the preceding book, (1Kg 21:23, The dogs shall eat Jezebel, by the wall of Jezreel,) fulfilled! And how dearly did she and her husband Ahab pay for the murder of innocent Naboth!
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
35. found no more of her than theskull, and the palms of her hands, c.The dog has a rootedaversion to prey on the human hands and feet.
2Ki 9:362Ki 9:37. JEZEBELEATEN BY DOGS.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And they went to bury her,…. The servants of Jehu, according to his orders and instructions;
but they found no more of her than the scull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands; the flesh, and even all the rest of her bones, being devoured by dogs, so that there was scarce anything of her to be buried, as in 2Ki 9:10, something similar to this happened to Ascletarion, a mathematician, as related by Suetonius o.
o In Vita Domitian. c. 15.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
But when they went to bury her, they found nothing but her skull, the two feet, and the two hollow hands. The rest had been eaten by the dogs and dragged away. When this was reported to Jehu, he said: “This is the word of the Lord, which He spake by His servant Elijah,” etc. ( 1Ki 21:23), i.e., this has been done in fulfilment of the word of the Lord. 2Ki 9:37 is also to be regarded as a continuation of the prophecy of Elijah quoted by Jehu (and not as a closing remark of the historian, as Luther supposes), although what Jehu says here does not occur verbatim in 1Ki 21:23, but Jehu has simply expanded rather freely the meaning of that prophecy. ( Chethb) is the older form of the 3rd pers. fem. Kal, which is only retained here and there (vid., Ewald, 194, a.). is a conjunction (see Ewald, 337, a.): “that men may not be able to say, This is Jezebel,” i.e., that they may no more be able to recognise Jezebel.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
(35) Her hands.Heb., the hands.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
35. Skull feet hands An eastern traveller, describing the remains of some human bodies that had been devoured by dogs, says: “The only portion of the several corpses I noticed that remained entire and untouched, were the bottoms of the feet, and the insides of the hands a proof of the rooted antipathy the dog has to prey upon the human hands and feet.” Dr. Thomson supposes that the dogs under Jezebel’s palace “may have been taught to devour the wretched victims of her cruelty, in which case the retribution would be remarkably striking.”
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
2Ki 9:35 And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of [her] hands.
Ver. 35. Than the skull, and the feet. ] All her flesh was devoured by dogs. And the like befell those Donatists that cast the sacramental bread to dogs, as is before noted. Let all dogged persecutors look to it: Qualis vita, finis ita; those that fall foul upon the saints, shall come to an ill end, as were easy to exemplify.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
but they found: Job 31:3, Ecc 6:3, Isa 14:18-20, Jer 22:19, Jer 36:30, Act 12:23
Reciprocal: 2Ki 9:10 – the dogs Psa 107:40 – contempt Ecc 8:10 – so Isa 34:3 – slain Jer 15:3 – I will Luk 16:22 – and was buried